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Exclude unused objects from Cost modeled metric's Diagram view

As a TBMA, I would like to see only used/connected objects in the Diagram view of the Cost modeled metrics. Other views (eg Model Overview) of the metric already excluded unused/disconnected objects. Today, unused/disconnected objects appear in t...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Hide and Rename - Keep Only option

Sometimes a table is based on a source that may at a later date add additional columns through configuration changes etc.  This may impact a dependent table, especially one that uses a pivot or unpivot.  A handy solution similar to the H...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Display Full Name instead of username

Under the Environment drop-down list, it would be nice to see the Full Name that is stored in Frontdoor, instead of the user name.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

New Formula RowIf

Looking for a new formula function like Row() where returns the number of the current row in the current table but with a IF statement. Example below where we could generate a running numbers (Column B) based on the same category (Column A). Thank...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

IBM i - DATAQ message capacity monitoring

An event is required to be triggered when a DATAQ is close to full capacity. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-data-queue-info-view
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add Function to Remove double spaces within text fields

There is double or triple spaces within Journal Line Description text field in the GL data. I would like a function to remove these multiple spaces in a row like the trim function does in excel. In TBM Studio the trim function only removes spaces ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

WebLogic - monitor Web deployments

We are using WebLogic servers. Recently we had an incident in which a web deployment was not loaded correctly. Currently it's not possible in Instana to alert when a web deployment is not loaded. A support ticket was made and they suggested to cre...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Alert on health check status of container not running in Kubernetes

Docker provides a healthcheck field, that determines the health status of a container (which can be retrieved from the .state.Health.Status field via docker inspect ). This field cannot be used in an alert today. Link: https://docs.docker.com/engi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

API-C physical appliance monitoring

currently this is the module we dont support either remote or local monitoring is needed for this part.
about 1 year ago in Instana / API-C / Sensor 1 Future consideration